Regular use of ecstasy increases your tolerance to the drug,
and you need to take ever increasing amounts to feel a same or even diminishing
high. With tolerance, there is a real risk of dependence, and once ecstasy users
achieve a level of dependence they must also endure a period of withdrawal
after use is curtailed.

Although ecstasy withdrawal and detox does not induce
dangerous physical symptoms, the psychological symptoms of withdrawal can be
severe and long lasting, and ecstasy addicts may require inpatient treatment to
learn the strategies needed for future drug avoidance.

Symptoms of Ecstasy Detox

The primary symptoms of ecstasy withdrawal and detox are all
psychiatric in nature, and ecstasy addicts in detox report severe and long
lasting feelings of depression, problems with sleeping, difficulties
concentrating, and memory problems. These sensations of detox can linger for
months or even years after use is curtailed.

Additionally, because ecstasy is almost never sold in its
pure form, ecstasy addicts may present with a secondary and undiagnosed
addiction to psycho stimulants that dilute ecstasy sold at the street level.
These secondary addictions can induce any number of distinct symptoms of
withdrawal.

Ecstasy Treatment

The only effective treatments for the symptoms of ecstasy
detox are psychiatric prescription medications…and time. Anti depressant
medications can help to ease some of the feelings of depression, and in some
cases anxiolitics help with experienced anxiety.

Because of ecstasy's role in the seratonergic systems of the
brain, ecstasy detox induces severe and lasting sleeping difficulties. The
brain takes time to regulate its depleted serotonin and until it does, sleep
can present a challenge. Addictions professionals in general do not advise the
use of sleeping medications because of their potential for abuse, and recommend
instead sound sleeping policies as the best way to a restful nights sleep.

Ecstasy detox reduces the ability to concentrate, and also
the ability to form and retain memories, both processes also related to the
seratonergic systems of the brain. Like sleep, these mental processes will get
better in time.

Quit Ecstasy

From the first time you take ecstasy and every time
thereafter, you destroy brain cells and compromise your future ability to feel
happiness, to sleep, and to consolidate memories. If you are abusing or dependent
on ecstasy you need to stop now, before the damage becomes irreversible. If you
cannot stop on your own, you need to consider professional treatment
assistance.

The mind can only take so much, and its supplies of pleasure
producing chemicals are finite. Artificial manipulation of the mind always
contains an element of risk, and for those people who play too frequently with
their neurochemistry, the ultimate consequences can be high indeed.

If you cannot stop, you need to learn what it is that makes
you crave intoxication, learn how you can overcome cravings to use, and learn
how to enjoy yourself without a need to get high. A period of in or outpatient treatment
may provide you with the therapy and re-education you need for a better life
free from ecstasy and other drug abuse.

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